Pozonia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Araneidae
Subfamilia: Araneinae
Tribus: Araneini
Genus: Pozonia
Species: P. andujari – P. bacillifera – P. balam – P. dromedaria – P. nigroventris
Name

Pozonia Schenkel, 1953

Type species: Pozonia cornuta Ehrenfried Schenkel-Haas, 1953 - nomina dubia
References

Estrada-Alvarez, J.C. 2015. Nueva especie de Pozonia Schenkel (Araneae: Araneidae) de México. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 51-54. Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
English: Pozonia

Pozonia is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by E. Schenkel in 1953.[2]
Species

As of April 2019 it contains five species:[1]

Pozonia andujari Alayón, 2007 – Hispaniola
Pozonia bacillifera (Simon, 1897) – Trinidad to Paraguay
Pozonia balam Estrada-Alvarez, 2015 – Mexico
Pozonia dromedaria (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) – Mexico to Panama
Pozonia nigroventris (Bryant, 1936) – Mexico to Panama, Cuba, Jamaica

References

Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Pozonia Schenkel, 1953". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
Schenkel, E. (1953). "Bericht über einige Spinnentiere aus Venezuela". Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 64: 1–57.